King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic ...

Buckingham Palace announced on Friday that the King and Queen will make state visits to Italy and the Holy See “in early ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II represented. In Catholic theological terms, St. Pope John Paul II and Benedict ...

Pope Francis also addressed all those “who are ill or who care for the suffering,” telling them: “Your journey together is a ...

The pope’s words were conveyed in a written speech handed out during an audience with an association of midwives and OB-GYNs ...

People who watch Pope Francis closely will recognise in the autobiography many of his views from his various encyclicals, his weekly addresses at the Vatican and speeches during his travels.

As Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox believers prayed this week for “Christian unity,” Jean-François Chiron sheds light on ...

Rome — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn't break his arm, but a sling ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban ... and ordered the withdrawal of the missiles. The following year, John XIII’s landmark peace encyclical “Pacem in Terris” (Peace on ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood ... eight years before he became Pope Benedict XVI, and both he and his predecessor, John Paul II, coauthored ...